# Connect Timesheet to Shotstack When **New Absence** fires in [Timesheet](https://apiant.ai/connections/timesheet), your agent runs **Add template** in [Shotstack](https://apiant.ai/connections/shotstack). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Timesheet **7** triggers Timesheet **53** actions Shotstack **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Timesheet and Shotstack to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Timesheet can start in Shotstack - When **New Absence** in Timesheet then **Add template** in Shotstack - When **New Project** in Timesheet then **Update template** in Shotstack Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Timesheet and Shotstack ## Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 67 actions - Trigger **New Absence** Triggered when a new absence is requested or recorded in the chosen Timesheet organization. - Trigger **New Project** Triggered when a new project is created in Timesheet. - Trigger **New Rate** Triggered when a new pay rate is created in Timesheet. - Trigger **New Tag** Triggered when a new tag is created in Timesheet. - Trigger **New Task** Triggered when a new tracked time entry is recorded in Timesheet. - Trigger **New Team** Triggered when a new team is created in Timesheet. - Trigger **New Todo** Triggered when a new to-do is created in Timesheet. - Action **Approve Absence** Approves a pending absence request in a Timesheet organization. Returns the updated absence, including its new status and who approved it. - Action **Create Expense** Creates an expense on a Timesheet task, with an amount, date and optional receipt. Returns the new expense with its ID. - Action **Create Note** Creates a note on a Timesheet task, with text and an optional attachment. Returns the new note with its ID. - Action **Create Organization** Creates a new organization (team workspace) in Timesheet. Returns the new organization with its ID. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Timesheet, optionally with a client, default billing rate and team. Returns the new project with its ID. - Action **Create Rate** Creates a pay rate in Timesheet, such as an overtime multiplier or a bonus amount. Returns the new rate with its ID. - Action **Create Reminder** Creates a reminder in Timesheet on a one-off or recurring schedule. Returns the new reminder with its ID and next fire time. - Action **Create Tag** Creates a tag in Timesheet that can be applied to time entries. Returns the new tag with its ID. - Action **Create Task** Creates a time entry (task) on a Timesheet project, with start and end times and optional tags, rate and mileage. Returns the new entry with its ID and duration. - Action **Create Team** Creates a team inside a Timesheet organization. Returns the new team with its ID. - Action **Create Todo** Creates a to-do on a Timesheet project, with an optional due date, assignees and time estimate. Returns the new to-do with its ID. - Action **Delete Expense** Deletes an expense from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the expense was removed. - Action **Delete Note** Deletes a note from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the note was removed. - Action **Delete Organization** Deletes an organization from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the organization was removed. - Action **Delete Project** Deletes a project from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the project was removed. - Action **Delete Rate** Deletes a pay rate from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the rate was removed. - Action **Delete Reminder** Deletes a reminder from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the reminder was removed. - Action **Delete Tag** Deletes a tag from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the tag was removed. - Action **Delete Task** Deletes a time entry from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the entry was removed. - Action **Delete Team** Deletes a team from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the team was removed. - Action **Delete Todo** Deletes a to-do from Timesheet. Returns confirmation that the to-do was removed. - Action **Find Absence** Searches absences in a Timesheet organization by member, contract, type, status or date range, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Expense** Searches Timesheet expenses by text, time entry, organization or date range, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Note** Searches Timesheet notes by text, time entry, organization or date range, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Organization** Looks up a Timesheet organization by name and returns its ID and details. Timesheet has no organization search endpoint, so this reads your organizations and matches the name, ignoring upper/lower case. - Action **Find Project** Searches Timesheet projects by name, team or status, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Rate** Searches Timesheet pay rates by name, team, project or status, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Reminder** Looks up a Timesheet reminder by name and returns its ID and schedule. Timesheet has no reminder search endpoint, so this reads your reminders and matches the name, ignoring upper/lower case. - Action **Find Tag** Searches Timesheet tags by name, team, project or status, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Task** Searches Timesheet time entries by text, project, to-do, team or date range, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Team** Searches Timesheet teams by name or organization, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Todo** Searches Timesheet to-dos by title, project, status or assignee, and returns the first match plus the full list of matches. - Action **Get Current Timer** Returns the state of your current Timesheet timer — whether it is running, paused or stopped, and the time entry it is tracking. - Action **Get Project** Returns one Timesheet project by ID, including its client, settings and tracked totals. - Action **Get Rate** Returns one Timesheet pay rate by ID, including its multiplier and extra amount. - Action **Get Tag** Returns a single tag by its ID, including its name, colour, archived state, owning team and total tracked time. - Action **Get Task** Returns a single tracked time entry by its ID, including its description, start and end times, duration, billing flags, project, rate, member and tags. - Action **Get Team** Returns a single team by its ID, including its name, description, colour, owning organization, and project and member counts. - Action **Pause Timer** Pauses the running timer, starting a break. Returns the timer with its new paused state. - Action **Resume Timer** Resumes a paused timer, ending the current break. Returns the timer with its new running state. - Action **Send Report** Generates a timesheet report for the chosen period and emails it to the given address. - Action **Start Timer** Starts the timer on a project, creating a running time entry. Returns the timer and the entry it is tracking. - Action **Stop Timer** Stops the running timer and closes out the time entry it was tracking. - Action **Update Expense** Updates an existing expense's description, date, amount, refund status or attached receipt. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Note** Updates an existing note's text, date or attachment. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Organization** Updates an organization's name, description, image, colour or AI chat setting. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Project** Updates an existing project's name, client, office, colour, billing defaults, salary or archived state. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Rate** Updates an existing pay rate's name, multiplier, extra amount, enabled or archived state. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Reminder** Updates an existing reminder's title, prompt, message template or schedule. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Tag** Updates an existing tag's name, colour or archived state. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Task** Updates an existing tracked time entry's project, description, times, billing flags, rate or tags. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Team** Updates an existing team's name, description, image, colour or salary visibility. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Todo** Updates an existing to-do's title, details, status, due date, assignees or time estimate. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Add template** Create a reusable edit template. - Action **Delete asset** Delete a hosted asset. - Action **Delete template** Delete a template. - Action **Generate asset** Generate an AI asset (text-to-image, text-to-speech, etc). - Action **Get generation status** Returns a generation job's status, asset URL and error. - Action **Get Ingest Job Status** Get the status of an ingest job. - Action **Get template** Retrieve a template by id. - Action **Ingest** Ingest a file. - Action **Inspect media** Probe a media URL for metadata. - Action **List sources** List ingested sources. - Action **List templates** List all templates. - Action **Render asset** Queue a render of an edit (timeline+output JSON) into video/image/audio. - Action **Render template** Render a stored template with merge fields. - Action **Update template** Update a template. ## Each app on its own - [ **Timesheet** Timesheet is a mobile Time Tracker which allows you the recording of your working hours with a simple push...](https://apiant.ai/connections/timesheet) - [ **Shotstack** Shotstack is a service that allows you to edit videos, images and audio at scale.](https://apiant.ai/connections/shotstack) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Timesheet - [ **Timesheet to Meteosource** This interactive documentation is using your API key which is filled in automatically, you can find and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-meteosource) - [ **Timesheet to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-google-sheets) - [ **Timesheet to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-stripe) - [ **Timesheet to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-trello) - [ **Timesheet to JIRA** Atlassian JIRA Cloud — issue tracking and project management.](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-jira) - [ **Timesheet to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timesheet-to-twilio) ## More into Shotstack - [ **HubSpot to Shotstack** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-shotstack) - [ **Salesforce to Shotstack** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-shotstack) - [ **Slack to Shotstack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-shotstack) - [ **Google Sheets to Shotstack** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-shotstack) - [ **Gmail to Shotstack** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-shotstack) - [ **Google Calendar to Shotstack** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-shotstack) Questions ## Timesheet and Shotstack, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Timesheet? Any of Timesheet's 7 triggers in the catalog, including New Absence, New Project, New Rate and New Tag. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Shotstack when something happens in Timesheet? Any of Shotstack's 14 actions, including Update template, Add template, Generate asset and Get generation status. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Shotstack to Timesheet? Shotstack has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Timesheet. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Shotstack's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Timesheet or Shotstack? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.